St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06
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developments. ana they make no DOneS
along the line of protest, saying that it
may seem very interesting and pleasant
for merchants and men of high degree
to sit quietly in their homes while they
go upon these dangerous errands, leav-
ing many of their companions dead
upon the field, while others are manned
for life and limp about the streets to
this hour. They read articles like this
with intense disgust.
There is undoubtedly rapidly grow
iIg belief that it is the part of wisdom
to commute the sentence of the con-
demed anarchists. Some are unQueS
tiOnably
Moved Largely by Sentiment
in the matter. but men like Judges
Tuley and Moran, Mr.. GOudy, Mr.
Gregory. Judge Trumbull and P. IL.
Hutchinson have declared in favor OF 1t
solely for the reason that it viii have
the best moral effect. The brave stand
these men are taking against what few
weeks ago seemed to be unanimous
public verdict is worthy of commenda-
ton. We shall undoubtedly discover
within the next few days that very
large number of earnest, thoughtful
people have reached the same cOnclu-
sion they have. 1t would be interesting
if we could in some way take vote on
the matter. There is to be an election
next Tuesday and if every citizen who
goes to the polls could at the same
time express his wishes on this all
important question we are inclined TO
believe that the gallowS would be
proved TO be a very unpopular candi-
date" And suggestions like this with
intenser disgust because they have not
even the merit of boldness, and under
the veneer of judicial gravity very
thinly concealS
APPREHENSION, Fear, Timidity,
''The question OF committing the SEN
tence of the condemned anarchists
ought to be and must be lifted above
any mere consideration of sentiment.
The men are unqueStiOnably guilty of
the graveSt crime. Being guilty they
should be punished. The question is
simply how. This question should be
graveIy considered. The wishes of the
condemned should in no way
control its decision. The tears
and PRAYERS of their unhappy
friends must have no more influence
than those of the widows and orphans
of the murdered policemen. viii the
public good be best conserved by hang
ing these seven men or by sending
them to the penitentiary for life? That
is the only question that now remains
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termine. Sentiment has nothing to do
with it. Neither has pity, fear or hate"
Tonight the Evening Mail shows very
clearly how it stands, for it filings out as
Saturday night suggestion for the
coming Sunday meditation the follow
ing, which treats of the flinty-hearted
who wish the law to take its course,
makes a special plea for the anarchists
now grouped under the shadow of the
gallows- hints that this is
HIGH TREASON
rather than murder and that the convic-
ton under which they stand is techni-
cal. Pitiable indeed is this spectacle.
Poor Gov. 0gleSbg. Before this
agony that has come upon him is over
he will wish that he were dead. He
will be subjected to terrific pressure
from all sides. The fiinty-hearted will
demand that he keep his hands
off and allow the law to
take its course. They will gaze at him
over the sides of the amphitheater, turn
down their thumbs and hoaESely cry out
for blood. They imagine that the safety
of society requires human sacrifice. A
very large element, larger perhaps than
we know of. is strongly ayerse to the
hangman'S feast which has been
set for Friday of next week. They think
that the law can be vindicated without
recourse to wholesale legal life-taking.
They realize that the anarchists who are
grouped under the shadow of the gal
lows over in the county jail stand
CONDEMNED to Die
not for the murder of policeman but
for high treason. The crime for which
they stand technically convicted and
the greater crime for which they were
really tried and condemned merits'stern
punishment, but would not life i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary be
punishment worse than death to the
culprlts and would not the law be digni-
fed and the best interests of society as
well subseTved as they would be by the
choking of seven miserable, mlsjudged.
half crazed wretches. Is it not barely
possible that the anarchists dead will be
infinitely More powerful for harm than
they would be alive and immured
within the walls of friendly prison?
Consider this we'll and carefully: con-
slider it prayerfully."
But,
pitiable as it is, it is spreading with the
rapidity of prairie fire, not among the
police who fought and suffered, not
among the widows and orphans who
wall and bewail, but in all ranks of
men, who by reason of their position
Challenge Public Scrutiny.
But in spite of that fact, in spite of
the gibberiSh of George Francis Train,
the fact remains that four of the con-
demned-Lingg, Fischer, Engel and
ParsOnS-Scoff at it all, ridicule the
movement and hold themselves aloof
from all serious communications with
men and women who seek to have them
fall upon their knees, admit their
crime. and petition the governor
for interference of some kind or other
In the jail to-day Miss Mueller, Lingg's
sweetheart, was about the cheeriest of
the party. When she entered her face
was fairly radiant with smiles and she
looked more as if she were preparing
for her bridal than contemplating the
execution and burial of her betrothed.
Rushing up to the barricade which sep
arated her from her lover, she opened
up newspaper which she held in her
hand and pointed out to him something
that was in it which caused them both